ManageEngine PAM360 is an enterprise-grade privileged access management platform that centralizes credential security, enforces least privilege with just in time elevation, and gives security teams end to end visibility into privileged sessions across hybrid infrastructure. It combines vaulting, secure remote access, PEDM, session monitoring, SSH key and certificate lifecycle management, and compliance reporting to reduce risk and simplify audits at scale.
What PAM360 solves
Privileged accounts are powerful—and risky—when left with standing access, scattered passwords, and little oversight; PAM360 tackles this by discovering privileged identities, vaulting and rotating credentials, brokering one click RDP/SSH access without exposing passwords, and recording every privileged action for forensics and proof of control. With machine learning anomaly detection, it also flags unusual behavior so teams can intervene before a misstep becomes an incident.
Core capabilities
• Credential vaulting: AES 256 encrypted storage, automated rotation, scheduled resets for OS, databases, network devices, and service accounts, plus APIs for application to application secrets retrieval to eliminate hard coded credentials.
• Secure remote access: Launch RDP, SSH, SQL, and VNC sessions from the browser with session recording, live shadowing, termination, and playback to satisfy monitoring and investigation needs without jump servers sprawl.
• Privilege elevation and delegation: Apply least privilege with time bound access, role based controls, and application/command restrictions; grant elevation only for the task window and revoke automatically when the clock runs out.
• Key and certificate management: Govern SSH keys and TLS/SSL certificates end to end to prevent outages and impersonation risks, with discovery, renewal, deployment, and expiry alerts baked in.
• DevOps and non human identities: Secure secrets for apps, services, scripts, and pipelines so automation can run safely without embedding credentials in code or config files.
Just in time elevation in practice
PAM360 integrates with Active Directory management to map users to groups and grant domain admin level rights on a request approval basis for a defined period, then auto revokes them to eliminate standing privileges and close lateral movement paths. For Windows hosts, it also supports local policy based elevation, while Linux environments can use command controls and self service elevation to keep root level access tightly scoped and auditable.
Governance, audits, and compliance
Every privileged operation is captured with searchable, exportable audits, and canned reports map directly to regulatory controls such as PCI DSS Requirement 10, HIPAA safeguards, SOX 404/802, NIST SP 800 53, ISO/IEC 27001, GDPR, and FedRAMP, helping teams demonstrate least privilege enforcement, session monitoring, and crypto hygiene without spreadsheet wrangling. Dedicated auditor roles can be scoped for read only access to evidence, accelerating audits while preserving separation of duties.
Integrations that matter
Ticketing integrations validate access requests against change or incident records to enforce policy at the gate, while SIEM and analytics tools ingest PAM360 logs and session events for correlation and alerting across the wider security stack. Directory services (AD/LDAP/Entra ID) streamline onboarding and SSO, and REST APIs plus browser extensions make it easier for admins and apps to work with the vault without breaking flow.
High availability and resilience
Enterprise deployments can enable backups, HA, and failover so access controls remain available during maintenance or outages, with break glass provisions for emergency access that are still governed and logged for later review. PAM360 agents maintain secure outbound connections to the server, simplifying operations in segmented networks without opening inbound ports on targets.
Where teams see quick wins
• Replace shared admin passwords with request based, time boxed access and automatic reset on release to stop reuse and privilege creep immediately.
• Turn on session recording and anomaly detection to move from implicit trust to observable, provable control over high risk operations in days, not quarters.
• Bring SSH keys and TLS/SSL under one roof to end last minute expiry scrambles and eliminate unknown keys that create shadow access.
Who benefits most
Security and IT operations teams responsible for Windows/Linux servers, network devices, databases, and cloud workloads gain a single control plane for privileged identities and sessions, while compliance owners get out of the box evidence mapped to major frameworks to shrink audit cycles. DevOps leaders benefit by replacing embedded secrets with brokered, short lived access tokens tied to pipeline runs and approvals, reducing risk without slowing delivery.
Getting started
Begin by discovering resources and privileged accounts, group them by sensitivity, and enforce password rotation with access request workflows and MFA on day one; then enable session recording and JIT elevation for admins and vendors to remove standing privileges without disrupting operations. Next, onboard SSH keys and certificates, wire logs to the SIEM, and switch approvals to ticket linked policies so access mirrors operational intent automatically.
ManageEngine PAM360 brings practical least privilege to life—vaulting secrets, brokering time bound access, and proving control with rich audits—so enterprises can cut breach paths, satisfy auditors, and keep administrators moving fast but safely.
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